The references in Mullá Husayn’s letter to Baha’u’llah’s
immediate response to the Divine Message, to the vigorous campaign which He had
boldly initiated in Núr, and to the marvellous success which had attended His
efforts, cheered and gladdened the Báb, and reinforced His confidence in the
ultimate victory of His Cause. He felt assured that if now He were to fall
suddenly a victim to the tyranny of His foes and depart from this world, the
Cause which He had revealed would live; would, under the direction of
Bahá’u’lláh, continue to develop and flourish, and would yield eventually its
choicest fruit. The master-hand of Bahá’u’lláh would steer its course, and the
pervading influence of His love would establish it in the hearts of men. Such a
conviction fortified His spirit and filled Him with hope. From that moment His
fears of the imminence of peril or danger entirely forsook Him. Phoenix-like He
welcomed with joy the fire of adversity, and gloried in the glow and heat of
its flame.
(Chapter 6, ‘The Dawn-Breakers’)
